I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

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I read the book first and thought it was awesome (so much so when I saw a copy at Goodwill for $0.59 I grabbed it to add to my small library of books I will reread). The movie was good but I felt it was lacking something when compared to the book.

I LOVED the book (and all the author’s other books as well! Add them to your list to read!) and I was nervous about watching the movie. I think the movie was fantastic, really well done, and did great justice to the book. I hope you enjoy it too!

I have a brother that is a quadriplegic. Dove into an above ground pool at 22 and is paralyzed C5-C6 much like the young man in this book/movie. That was in 1987, my brother is now 51 years old and is employed and drives a converted van. Life has been hard and he lives in pain, every day, but he didn’t kill himself to “solve” his problems. Our family is blessed to have him in our lives. My daughter bought the book and I read it too. We hated it. Too close to home. I would not let my mom read it, I knew it would hurt her to read. Just wanted viewers of this movie to know that the real heroes are the ones who live through what life deals them, not give up.